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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Kite@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I beat ET as a kid. I just wanted to share that. No cigarette afterparty occurred, though.

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  • santo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And here’s me replaying some of those and using save states like a mad man

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Once Inwas bored and started playing Contra, without the Konami Code.

    Its one of those games that just loops when you finish it.

    I finally stopped a few hours later after like the 4th or 5th loop.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bet he used the Nintendo Power Glove. It’s so bad.

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  • Focal@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Beating Rayman 1 on the PS1 be like

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s not even that hard and it does have saves

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      • Focal@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I dunno, getting every cage is pretty gruelling, and you can’t beat the game unless you do EVERYTHING.

        That being said, if you genuinely don’t think it’s “even that hard”, then you’re definitely on another level, and I salute you

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  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I beat DuckTales without getting hit.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Awoohoo

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    3 lives left.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was one of those kids. I mow play roguelites and roguelikes instead

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    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shit, is this why I like rogue likes?

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those old NES games broke my fear of failure, so roguelikes, soulslikes, and similar games where you have a real chance of losing are my jam.

      This also applies to games with permanent roster losses like XCOM or Darkest Dungeon. I can’t get enough.

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Funnily enough, I couldn’t get into the souls likes until now. The need to memorize boss patterns doesn’t appeal to me me

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Xcom Ironman is the true achievement 😅

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      • Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You might like Last Train Home. Every soldier loss is permanent and there’s only so many you can find/rescue.

        Based on true events, which is the most insane part. It’s kinda like frostpunk and an RTS game mixed together, which is very satisfying. Souls-like difficulty.

        youtu.be/q0lJ9A4AtFo

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Treasure Island Dizzy only had a single life. One of my earliest memories is of my sister losing her shit as she accidentally dropped the snorkel while she was cycling through her inventory underwater.

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    • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy crap I totally forgot that game existed. Me and my best friend were obsessed with it, drawn 3 tomes (yes, tomes) of comics about its character.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was me after finishing Majora’s Mask 100%.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The tough ones, especially. OG NES TMNT conqueror here (as you can tell it’s still in my list of life achievements).

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I got past the water level once…

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    • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Battletoads was the badge of honor

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      • pool_spray_098@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That game is hard to beat even with a fucking game genie, it’s insane.

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      • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re totally right and its one that I never beat. I haven’t gone through it with an emulator either. There are some games I have since gone through with an emulator using save states that I didn’t beat legitimately back in the day, like Castlevania, that I recognize would have been HAF to beat without assists. I still may try Battletoads the old fashioned way because I have a lot of respect for that game. I’m pretty sure if I or one of my friends had owned the game we would have beaten it, but we never managed to over the course of several rentals.

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I still have Turbo Tunnel PTSD

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my day we played like men!

    Also me:

    Image

    I could complete Robocop and Midnight Resistance though.

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    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m going to pretend you only used that for the pause feature and taking screenshots. Otherwise, we’re going to have a problem.

      – Video Game Police

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The best feature was being able to back the entire memory up to disk so I wouldn’t have to wait ten minutes to load it from tape.

        Even with infinite lives, half these games were close to impossible to beat.

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    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, there’s your problem. You’ve plugged a Romantic Robot into the place where your Kempston joystick should be. Never going to win at Daley Thompson’s without perfecting your waggle. Also, the Speccy will probably crash from hammering the keyboard if you try.

      Midnight Resistance is one of those weird games where the first level is the hardest; it’s not too bad to finish it if you do the first bit. Fair play on Robocop, though - that’s a hard game.

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  • kryptonidas@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Super Mario Bros in the NES for me, the excitement if you reach a later level for the first time, only to die and have to try it al over again.

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  • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is bullshit. I

    was there and we sure as fuck didn’t use pussy ass filters until we were old enough to understand the health benefits.

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    • Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are no health benefits to the filters, they only keep you from getting tobacco in your mouth.

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      • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pssst, that was part of the joke. Don’t tell anyone.

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    • HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and a swig of Maddog 20/20 was also in order. Or some Night Train Express if one of your buds was already in their 30s.

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      • TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have ridden the Night Train. I have looked the Devil in the eye.

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      • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have not-so-fond memories of pink grapefruit Maddog…

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  • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was in my mid 30s when I found out that you could hold some button when continuing after game over in Super Mario Bros to continue in the world you died.

    We just got gud and abused the turtle shell stair 1up.

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    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      After completing the game, when you’re sent back to the title screen, you can also press B to select which world to start on. The World 1-1 in the HUD changes, then you have to do the continue trick - hold A and press Start.

      I can finish the game on one life without warps, but I’ve never once been able to get the 1ups from a Koopa shell.

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    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which button? Tell me!

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      • conartistpanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Dont worry guys I found the solution” aah comment

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    • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whelp I was today years old when I found out about this…

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    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I watched a video recently about tool assisted Speedruns which actually educated me on why this worked. An issue with the sound card and the way user input was handled allowed certain button combinations to cause Random Code Execution. It’s actually possible to beat one of the Mario games (can’t remember the name right this second) on the first frame using this method, but it requires a ridiculous amount of inputs

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Super Mario World can be forced into a state where it will run arbitrary code

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You could do what now?

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am legitimately angry to only be learning this now

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mario Bros was the first souls-like

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      laughs in Contra

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      • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think I also hear Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden laughing.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I almost used Contra instead lol

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And your little brother got peanut butter on the manual so you mom threw it away.

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Billy Mitchell after using emulation software

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Careful, you’re gonna get sued!

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …after he sues Karl Jobs again.

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  • rickdg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Totally not this 80s kid.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s impressive because after dropping all those coins into machine he could still afford some smokes.

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    • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They were less than a dollar a pack back then.

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      • Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In the UK some shops would sell you a single cigarette for less the ten of our new pennies. Around '86 I think.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Damn those rich American kids.

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